Make sure you control your high or law bloodsugar levels, since it may lead to some of the serious medical conditions including diabetes ketoacidosis and death. Diabetes Life Diabetes Management high bloodsugar ketoacidocis low bloodsugar

Question: What is diabetic ketoacidosis and how can I prevent it? Answer: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a possible complication of diabetes that can cause kidney damage and may prove fatal if left untreated. In ketoacidosis, a lack of insulin causes the body to go into starvation mode. With this breakdown, ketones are formed in the bloodstream, and this causes a decrease in the blood’s pH levels.

“Can people with type 1 diabetes develop DKA without high bloodsugar?” ” DKA is short for diabetic ketoacidosis and is a life threatening condition. Life with Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) insulin insulin pumps ketogenic low blood glucose/sugar (hypoglycemia) low-carb diet SGLT-2 type 1 diabetesI’ve seen the question pop up a lot lately so I asked two endocrinologists to answer this question.

Two instances of apparent “diabetes neglect” have been in the news recently. This certainly is a topic I wish we never had to write about. It’s both depressing and infuriating! But there’s a need to highlight this issue because it… The post When D-Parenting Turns to Neglect… Or So We May Think appeared first on DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog.

What most terrified us, though, was not high bloodsugar, but that he might go low and slip into a diabetic coma. Over the years, there had only been one incident of his bloodsugar dipping so low that he became disoriented. He continued his regular endocrinologist visits and his bloodsugar control was good. When Nicholas’ mother initially pointed out the symptoms Nicholas’ roommates had described matched diabetic ketoacidosis, I dismissed the idea. MORE >>

I was out of town for a couple of days this week for work, and I’m pretty sure that I was this close to ending up in DKA (diabetes ketoacidosis) again. Life with Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes diabetic ketoacidosis traveling with diabetes workI think it was one of those “perfect storm” type of events. I’d gone out to a concert Tuesday night and was out late, hadn’t […]. MORE >>